 Many people see Christianity as a ladder, a ladder that leads to God, and as long as I pull myself up and climb to the top, I'll get to God. And many Christians will actually agree, in fact, they'll say that this is the only ladder that you can use to get to God. But this ladder analogy actually isn't true at all. But the more accurate picture of what actually happened was that Jesus came down that ladder and he saw us with broken arms and broken legs. He threw us on his back and he climbed up. In theological terms, that ladder can be seen as the law, all the things that we can do right in order to get closer to God. The challenge is that none of us have been perfect. We've all fallen short. We've all broken God's law. None of us can climb up the ladder. But Jesus fulfilled all the requirements of the law and he died in our place, taking our penalty for our lawlessness that we could be saved through him. Christianity is not just a tool we use to reach God. Being a Christian is an identity that signifies our relationship with God and our reliance on him to save us, not by our good works, but by his grace.